5/11/2013 9:47 PM
Toledo, spare those trees
KEITH C. BURRIS ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE BLADE
Remember the Dr. Seuss story about the Lorax, who spoke for the trees? …

5/10/2013 7:06 PM
Dems struggle making laws in Rep Ohio
Marilou Johanek
“It's not that easy being green.

5/9/2013 8:17 PM
Ex-teacher, lawmaker aims to improve Detroit schools
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE COLUMNIST
DETROIT — Ellen Cogen Lipton didn’t get a lot of notice during her first two terms in the Michigan Legislature. She was small, soft-spoken, and competent. She was a reliably liberal vote from the solidly Democratic Detroit suburb of Huntington Woods, a town of restored older homes inhabited largely by professors, attorneys, and young professionals. …

5/6/2013 12:00 AM
Bright future awaits Clay students
BY TOM WALTON BLADE COLUMNIST
A comedian once joked that he was a peripheral visionary. He could see into the future, he said, but only off to one side. I saw the future head-on recently, and I felt a lot better about it. …

5/5/2013 9:16 AM
Gangs in Toledo
KEITH C. BURRIS ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE BLADE
Toledoans are talking, and thinking, about The Blade’s gang series — Battle lines: Gangs of Toledo. It’s a stunning accomplishment. The sheer amount of work — writing, filming, and legwork — done by Taylor Dungjen and Amy E. Voigt, as well as by the Blade’s newsroom editors and art staff knocks me out. What a commitment — to serious journalism …

5/4/2013 11:49 PM
The power of a president is limited
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
It Began with the budget battle, reached a cruel crescendo with the gun vote, and culminated in the question President Obama had to field at his press conference last week about whether he’d run out of “juice” to pass his agenda. …

5/4/2013 11:45 PM
Drop the teacup, lawmakers, and expand Medicaid
BY DAVID KUSHMA BLADE COLUMNIST
The Republicans who control Ohio’s General Assembly are making an instructive choice. They are denying health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working-poor Ohioans — and defying the governor of their party — so they can pander to the hard-right bloc of GOP voters. …

5/3/2013 7:19 PM
Congressional placeholders place progress on hold
BY MARILOU JOHANEK BLADE COLUMNIST
Same as it ever was. The do-nothing 113th Congress is partisan, polarized, and gridlocked. We’ve seen this movie before. The plot never advances. …

5/3/2013 7:34 AM
The job of mayor of Detroit no longer seems to suit Bing
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE COLUMNIST
DETROIT — The last time I talked at length with Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, late last summer, he said two things that convinced me he wasn’t going to run for re-election this year. …

4/30/2013 12:00 AM
A presidential library for all of us
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE EXECUTIVE EDITOR
We needed these moments of introspection, these reflections on national purpose, these symbols of national concord. Many of them occurred in Boston, site of terrorism in 2013. One of them occurred in Dallas, site of tragedy in 1963. …